· Private foundation
The Eric Gleacher Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $75,000 |
| LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| STUDENT ADVOCACY INC | $10,000 |
| NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS | $10,000 |
| MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION INC | $9,500 |
| NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| PALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC | $5,000 |
| ON COURSE FOUNDATION USA | $5,000 |
| THIRTY SIX EAST SIXTY SECOND STREET FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| VINCEREMOS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATION FUND INC | $5,000 |
| METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
Northwestern University4× · 2017–2020 · $6.2M · revenue +41%- LTLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation3× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +49%
- MCMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +91%
Funded once
University of Chicagoone grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +22%- HFHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
- DDONORSCHOOSEORGone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To create and/or grant scholarships to colleges, universities or other institutions of higher education for needy & deserving individuals who are golf caddies or former caddies. (continues on schedule o)
To educate the interested public in the game of golf including the rules of golf, traditions and etiquette of the game, and techniques involved in playing the game.
To serve, grow and advance the game of golf in maryland and the district of columbia.
The principal mission of pga tour, inc. is to promote the sport of professional golf through sanctioning and administering golf tournaments and promoting the common interests of touring golf professionals. this is accomplished by providing…
The foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the usga's mission to champion and advance the game of golf, everywhere it is played. its purpose is soley charitable, scientific, and educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the…
Provide donations to organizations that are charitable and/or educational: see sch o. meet the specifications of irc 501 (c) (3) ; and promote the furtherance of golf through providing scholarships to caddies and others worthy of support…
Western golf association was formed to promote and supervise any and all matters and activities pertaining to or for the benefit of caddies who have received the evans scholarship, to conduct golf tournaments for the benefit of the evans…
The new jersey state golf association, inc. ("the association") is a non-profit organization of public and private clubs that was formed for the purpose of preserving and promoting the game of golf throughout the state of new jersey.the…
To unite the golf industry around initiatives that promote, enhance the growth of and provide access to the game worldwide, while preserving golf's traditional values and passing them on to others. it accomplishes its mission through: 1.…
Social and recreational golf club for nonprofit purposes.
The ouimet fund's purpose is to help deserving young men and women, who have worked at golf courses in massachusetts, obtain a college education. we provide need-based college scholarships, which are renewable and worth an average of…
Long island golf association hold tournaments for the purpose of determining the various long island golf champions, to promote good fellowship and friendly rivalry among the golf players and golf clubs on long island; to foster and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Guild International Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Michelle McGann Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ) ↗
- Who funds Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds Western Illinois University Foundation ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds The Michelle McGann Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GOLF LINKS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Vinceremos Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ON COURSE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES B LEE JR SCHOLARSHIP FUND IN HONOR OF JOSEPH A MCBRIDE ↗
- Who funds THE THIRTY SIX EAST SIXTY SECOND STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MAIDSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC GOLF CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Raether Family Charitable Trust · Mutual of America Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · A Haigh Cundey Foundation · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Cornell University Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Eric Gleacher Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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